- Feb 1 NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
- Feb 1 Soyuz TM-16 lands
- Feb 2 Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
Václav Havel President
Feb 2 Václav Havel becomes the first president of an independent Czech Republic, after the split with Slovakia
- Feb 3 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
Police Trial for Assaulting Rodney King
Feb 3 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California
- Feb 3 General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
- Feb 4 Admiral William Studeman ends term as acting director of CIA
- Feb 4 Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror
- Feb 5 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160
- Feb 5 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
44th NHL All-Star Game
Feb 6 44th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: Wales beats Campbell, 16-6; MVP: Mike Gartner, NY Rangers, RW
Bowe vs. Dokes
Feb 6 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Carmen Electra
Feb 7 Carmen Electra releases her self-titled debut album, "Carmen Electra"
- Feb 7 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 23-20; MVP: Steve Tasker, Buffalo Bills, WR
- Feb 8 GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
- Feb 8 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
Michael Jackson Talks to Oprah
Feb 10 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
- Feb 10 Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
- Feb 10 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
- Feb 11 43rd Berlin International Film Festival: "Woman Sesame Oil Maker" and "The Wedding Banquet" win the Golden Bear (tie)
- Feb 11 Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
Appointment of Interest
Feb 11 President Clinton selects Janet Reno to be first female US Attorney General
Film Release
Feb 12 Comedy film "Groundhog Day" opens across the US starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, directed by Harold Ramis
- Feb 13 Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
- Feb 13 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
- Feb 13 Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
Daytona 500
Feb 14 35th Daytona 500: Dale Jarrett, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, wins from Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine
- Feb 14 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
- Feb 15 Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá, Colombia
- Feb 15 Howard Stern Radio Show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WRQI 95.1 FM
- Feb 16 Sandra Völker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
- Feb 16 Western Australia's and Australia's first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of office.
- Feb 17 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
- Feb 17 Hartford right wing Pat Verbeek scores his 300th career NHL goal and adds his 300th career assist in a 5-3 Whalers' home loss to the Buffalo Sabres
- Feb 19 "Happy Nation" debut studio album by Swedish pop group Ace of Base is released
- Feb 19 Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
- Feb 20 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
- Feb 20 NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 21 43rd NBA All-Star Game, Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT: West beats East, 135-132 (OT); MVPs: Karl Malone, Utah Jazz F; John Stockton, Utah Jazz, PG
- Feb 21 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
- Feb 22 Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
- Feb 23 Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
- Feb 23 India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
- Feb 23 Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
Grammy Awards
Feb 24 35th Grammy Awards: "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton wins
- Feb 25 David Shiner and Bill Irwin's comedy revue "Fool Moon" opens at the Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 207 performances
- Feb 25 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
- Feb 25 Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
- Feb 26 "World Trade Center bombing of 1993": truck bomb explodes in parking garage of NYC World Trade Center at 12:18pm, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000 in what was the deadliest act of terrorism perpetrated on US soil at the time
- Feb 26 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
Cricket Record
Feb 26 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
Film & TV History
Feb 28 7th American Comedy Award: Jerry Seinfeld
- Feb 28 Gun battle erupts near Waco, Texas at Branch Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid
- Feb 28 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
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